DealBook: Former Goldman Director Gupta to Stay Free Pending His Appeal

A former Goldman Sachs director, Rajat K. Gupta, may remain free on bail while he challenges his insider-trading conviction, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.In a surprise decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan ruled that Mr. Gupta would not have to report to prison until his appeal is heard, which could take a year. He had been set to start serving...

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U.S. Warns Syria Against Using Chemical Weapons

Narciso Contreras/Associated Press A kitchen in a home in Aleppo, Syria showed signs of heavy fighting Sunday. WASHINGTON — President Obama warned Syria on Monday not to use chemical weapons against its own people, vowing to hold accountable anyone who did, even as American intelligence officials picked up signs that such arms might be deployed in the fighting there. The White House...

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Heisman finalists: Manziel, Te'o and Klein

NEW YORK (AP) — Johnny Manziel and Manti Te'o are in position to make Heisman Trophy history.Manziel, the redshirt freshman quarterback from Texas A&M, and Te'o, Notre Dame's star linebacker, along with Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein, were invited Monday to attend the Heisman presentation ceremony.Manziel is the favorite to win college football's most famous player of the year award on...

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Global Update: GlaxoSmithKline Tops Access to Medicines Index

Sang Tan/Associated PressGlaxoSmithKline hung on to its perennial top spot in the new Access to Medicines Index released last week, but its competitors are closing in. Every two years, the index ranks the world’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies based on how readily they get medicines they hold patents on to the world’s poor, how much research they do on tropical diseases, how ethically...

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DealBook Column: For Buffett, the Long Run Still Trumps the Quick Return

“If somebody bought Berkshire Hathaway in 1965 and they held it, they made a great investment — and their broker would have starved to death.”Warren E. Buffett was sitting across from me over lunch at a private club in Midtown Manhattan last week, lamenting the current state of Wall Street, which promotes a trading culture over an investing culture and offers incentives for brokers and traders to...

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Young Leaders Cast a Wider Net for Immigration Reform

Dan Gill for The New York TimesDelegates on Saturday reflected in silence during the United We Dream congress for young immigrants in Kansas City, Mo.  More Photos »KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After a boisterous three-day congress here, more than 600 leaders of a national movement of young immigrants living in the country without legal papers voted to expand beyond their past demands for citizenship for...

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Euro zone crisis drags down European ad spending: report

LONDON (Reuters) – The euro zone crisis has left Western Europe the only world region to see a fall in advertising spending this year, market research group ZenithOptimedia said.The forecasting group said advertising expenditure in Western Europe fell 2.2 percent to $ 106.8 billion this year compared with an average increase of 3.3 percent worldwide.North American ad spending rose 4.1 percent to $...

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Notre Dame vs. Alabama: Star power, power football

NEW YORK (AP) — Notre Dame and Alabama will play in the BCS national championship game on Jan. 7 in Miami.The final Bowl Championship Series standings were revealed Sunday night, and to no one's surprise, the Fighting Irish were first and Alabama was second.Alabama is shooting for its second straight national title and third in four seasons.Notre Dame is in the BCS championship game for the first...

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Unboxed: Stand-Up Desks Gaining Favor in the Workplace

THE health studies that conclude that people should sit less, and get up and move around more, have always struck me as fitting into the “well, duh” category. But a closer look at the accumulating research on sitting reveals something more intriguing, and disturbing: the health hazards of sitting for long stretches are significant even for people who are quite active when they’re not sitting...

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TV Networks Say DVRs and Weak Shows Explain Low Ratings

If you ask several of the top programmers in network television what is going wrong with their ratings this season, they offer a litany of answers: jarring schedule disruptions from debates, election night and Hurricane Sandy, for instance, as well as the ever-increasing defections toward delayed viewing and away from the nightly schedules that have defined network prime time since the days of radio....

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